2025 Webinar Series
Webinar #3: Exploring OFA Sunfish
We hope you will join the next webinar in our multi-part series taking place Thursday, October 23, 2025, as we explore OFA Sunfish—its mission, architecture, and how it orchestrates disaggregated resource pools to simplify HPC and AI/ML at scale.
We’ll show how Sunfish interacts with H3’s CXL-FAM appliance, walking through an end-to-end example that previews a demo slated for SC’25. Then we’ll look at practical complexities of CXL implementation in customer environments, focusing on deploying core features such as memory sharing and switching to solve real-world scaling challenges. You’ll leave with a high-level view of H3’s CXL offerings and how CXL exemplifies the broader shift to disaggregated compute and memory for next-gen data centers.
OFA Webinar Series 2025 – Webinar #3
Exploring OFA Sunfish
Presented by: Russ Herrell, Distinguished Technologist, HPE (Retired) and Brian Pan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at H3 Platform
October 23rd | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET / 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PT
Russ Herrell - Distinguished Technologist, Retired from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Russ recently retired from Hewlett Packard Labs of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, having worked for Bill and Dave's companies in Fort Collins, Colorado for his entire career. He has designed 3D graphics engines, management systems for large SMP business and technical computers, and specialized in complete hardware/software solution architectures. Russ continues to work with the Open Fabric Alliance and DMTF organizations on Sunfish, an open standard for management of disaggregated fabric resources.
Brian Pan - Founder & Chief Executive Officer at H3 Platform
Brian Pan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of H3 Platform, a company specializing in innovative PCIe switch boxes for the HPC industry. Brian's background demonstrates expertise in sales leadership and business development. Prior to H3 Platform, Brian served as Sales Director at Qnap, contributing to the company's retail operations. Before Qnap, Brian held the position of Sales Director at Zyxel Communications Corp, a provider of broadband access solutions. Brian holds a Master of Business Administration from National Chengchi University and a Bachelor's degree from National Cheng Kung University.
